Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22
NEWS AND Notes.

Sam Jones is supporting four young
men at college in Georgia
The southern part OF New JERSEY is re-
ported to be ct the mercy CT thieves and incen-
diares.
Russell Sage has put ID On the wall of
his office In Wall street the sign, 'No cigarette
smokers wanted here"
There was an average of Al railway
accidents per day in the United States during
the month of February.
The extra session of the West Virginia
Legislature will consider bill reducing rail-
road fare to cents mile.
When Mayor Hewitt of New York was
recently asked what he thought of President
CIeveland's administration he replied: 4
have scarcely tine enough to think what
think of my own administration "
A beggar IN Spain is gentleman, and
you address him always in formal and courte-
GUS language. Brother" you say when he
impOrtunes You, "may God put 1t into your
heart TO deprive me of the pleasure of your So
ciety."
Saloons in New York were tightly
closed last Sunday, and only we'll known Gus
toners were admitted through the side doors,
The police, however, managed to make l56
arrests. Policemen stopped base ball and other
outdoor games. 1t was a quiet day ali round.
They are building a squirrel cage for
men in Oswego. The cell moves slowly round
continually, carrying the prisoner with 1t. The
rotary motion ts to prevent prisoners from
breaking through the walls. They don't re
main in one spot long enough for hole to be
III de.
Georgia boasts of three stingY men.
One of them will not drink as much water as
he wants unless it be from another mans well;
the second requires his family to write
"small hand" TO save ink, and the third stops
hts clsck az night in order to save the wear and
tear of the machinery.
At Coldweter, Mich, on the 18th inst,
Clark Ii. Thomas, commonly called "Scrap
iron" Thomas, was arrested for conspiring
with Walter @. Cole, TO kill Charles Davis, aged
seventy four, living in the Thomas building,
for the purpose of obtaining the insurance on
Davis II c IN graveyard company. Cole gave
the scheme away To officers, WIO had party
under bed in Coles room when the arrange
ments were made.
Anna Dickinson warmly denies that she
has given up her dramatic aspirations. Like all
histrioniC Americans, she has an offer from q
London manager" which she may accept. The
play "Aurellan, which was written for McCul-
Tough, is still in her possession. She thinks the
play would suit wilson Barrett and feels con-
WINGED that she could successfully sastain the
sec 'ndary role of ZenObia to Mr.. Barretps Au-
Telian. Anna says that she viii not lecture
again. but Will surely return to the stage next
season.
The Treasury Department has, upon
reconsideration, affirmed it's ruling of the 18th
OF February last, whereby, under the prinCi
plies enunciated in the decision of the United
states supreme court, in the case of SChles-
singer VS. Beard, 1t held that imported steel
crop ends were dutiable at the rate of three
tenths of l Centpe pound under the provisions
for scrap steel" These crop ends consist of
waste material from the manufacture of steel
rails, being the scrap of defective ends which
have to be sawed If after the rails are rolled,
A New York special of the 18th inst.
says: THE Court of Appeals having recently
passed upon a test case affecting The sale of
oleomargarine for butter, and in decision de
fined the law, the cases of fifty offending
grocers were to day placed npon the calendar
of the general sessions. Rec0 der Smyth &C
CUpied the benin, and District Attorney Mar
tine appeared personally to prosecute, and two
lawyers of the State Dairy Association were in
attendance to assist him. The defe1 dants
were all represented by the counsel of the
GrOCers' Association, who offered pleas of
guilty in all cases. The Recorder imposed
fnes on each of ire fraudulent butter dealers,
with some few exceptions.